My name is Lena and last year I moved from my hometown Freiburg, the warmest and sunniest German city situated next to the magical Black Forest region, to Adelaide. Being a real “Freiburger Bobbele”, as we call the people born in this beautiful city, I studied German, English and French Linguistics and Literature in my hometown and have been teaching all three languages to children and adults in different educational settings since then. I have been a member of the vibrant VLLC family since November 2015 and love what VLLC can do to bring different people, languages and cultures together and to enrich our students' lives in so many ways! ​​

I would like to introduce one of our Italian tutors, Mina. Mina has been with VLLC since the beginning of 2015. She has completed various business and education studies and previously worked for DECD as an SSO and an Italian teacher for a program called First Language. She has also held Italian Afternoon School for children of all backgrounds and Conversational Adult evening classes. She is very proud of her Italian heritage and is a first generation Italo-Australian as her parents immigrated to Australia in the 60’s. She loves the Italian language, culture and traditions and it makes her very happy to share all of these experiences with students. She is enjoying her role at VLLC and loves meeting and getting to know people, sharing stories and encouraging the wonderful gift of learning and speaking more than one language.